EDP Weekly's IT Monitor articles from July 2001

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor archives from July 2001

IBM ANNOUNCES WORLDS FASTEST SILICON-BASED TRANSISTOR.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... IBM has announced it has built the world's fastest silicon-based transistor, a basic building block used to make microchips. IBM expects the new transistor will drive communications chips to speeds of 100GHz within two years -- five times...

MIPS TECHNOLOGIES MIPS32 4KM CORE SELECTED AS STANDARD BY THALES COMMUNICATIONS FOR LOW-POWER, HIGH-PERFORMANCE SECURITY ACCESS DEVICES.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:MIPS) (Nasdaq:MIPSB), a provider of industry standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer and network applications, has announced that THALES Communications (formerly Thomson-CSF...

IBM INTRODUCES WORLD'S HIGHEST-RES COMPUTER MONITOR.(Product Announcement)
July 2, 2001... IBM announces the T220, the world's highest-resolution flat panel monitor, enabling photograph-quality imaging for science, banking, engineering, publishing, medicine and business critical visualization tasks. The T220, with a screen that...

PTSC ANNOUNCES NEW JAVASEED PROCESSOR TECHNOLOGY.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... Patriot Scientific Corp. (OTCBB:PTSC) has announced JavaSeed, a new, patent-pending, processor technology that allows the pervasive and economical use of the Java language even down to the sensor level by vastly reducing the cost of using Java...

CREDIT CARD-SIZED HARD DRIVE FROM CMS BOOSTS PDA CAPACITY.(Product Announcement)
July 2, 2001... CMS Peripherals has unveilled Fire & Forget, a Type II PC-Card hard drive (HDD), designed to give PDA users an additional 2GB of storage capacity. This credit card-sized HDD requires only a single PC-Card slot to operate. Weighing less...

PANASONIC'S MOBILE DATA WIRELESS DISPLAY & MINI PC REDEFINE PORTABILITY.(Product Announcement)
July 2, 2001... Panasonic Computer Solutions Company, has announced the release of the revolutionary Mobile Data Wireless Display and Toughbook 07 Mini PC, a cordless solution for a wired world. A unique product in concept, technology and ergonomics, the...

TOSHIBA UNVEILS NEW 1/2-RACK DESIGN FOR SERVERS.(Product Announcement)
July 2, 2001... Originally developed in Japan as a technology statement for the server market, the new Magnia Z300 server wears an almost stealth-like black casing and debuts a unique 1/2-rack wide, side-by-side compact form factor. Strengthening its corporate...

ON TECHNOLOGY INTRODUCES ON COMMAND SITEMANAGER.(Product Announcement)
July 2, 2001... ON Technology (Nasdaq: ONTC), a provider of remote software management solutions, has introduced ON Command SiteManager -- the first software management solution specifically designed to address the time and resource constraints of both large...

ORACLE INTRODUCES SUPPLYCHAIN.ORACLE.COM.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), the largest provider of software for e-business, has announced the immediate availability of SupplyChain.Oracle.com, a collaborative supply chain solution delivered as an online service. This solution helps remove...

EDS AND CROSSWORLDS SOFTWARE FORM RESELLER ALLIANCE.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... CrossWorlds Software (Nasdaq:CWLD), a business integration software provider, has announced a reseller alliance agreement with EDS (NYSE:EDS). This alliance names EDS E.solutions as a CrossWorlds preferred provider of integration services and...

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INTRODUCES SOFTWARE TO HELP SERVICE PROVIDERS FIND AND ELIMINATE REVENUE LEAKS QUICKLY.(Product Announcement)
July 2, 2001... Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) has introduced the Kenan Revenue Locator, a software application that helps service providers identify and recover revenue leaks that, for the average carrier, can amount to 10 percent or more of total revenue....

ATREUS SYSTEMS INTRODUCES GUESTLINK 2.2 AND STARTSMART PROFESSIONAL SERVICES PROGRAM FOR THE HOSPITALITY MARKET.(Product Announcement)
July 2, 2001... Atreus Systems, Inc., a developer of intelligent broadband service creation and delivery platforms for service providers and carriers, recently introduced Atreus guestLINK 2.2, a scaleable, market-ready solution that enables service providers...

NSTL TESTING OF WINDOWS 2000 'DISK DEFRAGMENTER' RELEASED IN SEVEN LANGUAGES AT PC EXPO.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
July 2, 2001... A new NSTL Lab report will be released in seven Asian and European languages during PC Expo this week. The report titled, "Comparison Testing: Diskeeper vs. the Windows 2000 Disk Defragmenter," reveals how dependence on the manual disk...

IXL LAUNCHES AMSS IT MAINTENANCE SOLUTION.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... iXL (Nasdaq: IIXL) has launched a proprietary solutions set and methodology to address the rapidly growing IT maintenance market. The solution, iXL's Applications Management and Support Services or AMSS, is designed to meet the growing...

IBM AND SIDEWARE FORM STRATEGIC ALLIANCE TO DELIVER CUSTOMER SERVICE APPLICATIONS.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Sideware (OTC (BB): SDWS and TSE: SYD.U) has announced a strategic alliance to deliver customer service applications to help companies of all sizes, including small businesses, and government agencies better manage their...

COMPAQ CLAIMS GLOBAL SAN LEADERSHIP RECONFIRMED.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 9, 2001... Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) is the market leader in deploying Fibre Channel switching product ports for storage area networks (SAN), according to a Gartner Dataquest Research Brief on 2000 Fibre Channel SAN components. Compaq...

ORACLE JOINS FORCES WITH AT&T, NAVLINK AND DRUTT NETWORKS TO PROVIDE A PAN EUROPEAN, END-TO-END WIRELESS HOSTING SERVICE.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 9, 2001... Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), NavLink and Drutt Networks have entered into a commercial cooperation agreement to deliver value-added wireless applications to Oracle customers, based on Oracle9i Application Server Wireless Edition (Oracle9iAS WE). The...

ARM AND SUN COLLABORATE ON NEXT-GEN EMBEDDED JAVA TECHNOLOGY.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 9, 2001... ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) has announced that they have entered into a collaboration and licensing agreement...

CMS EXPANDS CAPACITY OF PORTABLE DESKTOP STORAGE SOLUTIONS.(CMS Peripherals' Desktop Automatic Backup System hard disk drive)(Product Announcement)
July 9, 2001... CMS Peripherals, a leading provider of hard drive upgrades and portable automatic backup solutions for notebook and desktop computers, recently announced the expansion of their Desktop Automatic Backup System (ABS) for Windows 98/Me and 2000...

MOBILITY ELECTRONICS ANNOUNCES NEW PATENT THAT STRENGTHENS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POSITION.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 9, 2001... Mobility Electronics, Inc. (Nasdaq: MOBE), has been awarded a new patent that strengthens the company's intellectual property holdings in the docking field. The new patent covers important functionality and techniques for docking through a...

ACER LABS LICENSES BLUETOOTH RADIO TECHNOLOGY FROM NEWLOGIC.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 9, 2001... Acer Laboratories Inc., one of the world's leading provider of integrated circuits, has signed an agreement with NewLogic Technologies AG, a leading supplier of Bluetooth intellectual property (IP) cores, in which the company will license...

STMICROELECTRONICS AND IMAGINATION TECHNOLOGIES EXTEND PARTNERSHIP TO NEW GENERATIONS OF POWERVR TECHNOLOGY.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 9, 2001... Imagination Technologies Group (LSE: IMG), a provider of human computer interface intellectual property (IP), and STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM), a supplier of system-on-chip solutions, have announced that they have extended their successful...

POLARIS NETWORKS ENTERS METRO CORE MARKET TO DELIVER BREAKTHROUGH OPTICAL TRANSPORT-SWITCH ARCHITECTURE.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 9, 2001... Polaris Networks, a new developer of next-generation optical transport switches, has announced its entry into the optical metro core market with a breakthrough transport-switch architecture. The Polaris solution helps service providers to...

CALDERA'S NEW SERVER PRODUCTS SCALE LINUX APPLICATIONS FROM LOW-END TO HIGH-END.(Product Announcement)
July 9, 2001... Caldera International Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD), has announced the launch of its new server products, Caldera OpenLinux Server and Caldera Open UNIX 8, which enable the deployment of Linux applications on both the Linux and UNIX platforms. Using...

UNISYS ES7000 SHATTERS WORLD PERFORMANCE RECORD FOR E-COMMERCE, ACCORDING TO TPC-W BENCHMARK.(Product Information)
July 16, 2001... The Unisys e-@ction Enterprise Server ES7000 is the world's fastest server for e-commerce by a margin of 38 percent, according to the TPC-W benchmark, an industry-standard measure of server performance. The benchmark results announced today...

YANKEE GROUP REPORT LOOKS AT THE EVOLVING TELECOM E-MARKETPLACE AND ITS ADAPTING BUSINESS MODEL.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 16, 2001... A new Yankee Group Report, "The Evolving Telecom E-Marketplace: Adapting Its Business Model to Survive," looks at the current business climate challenges facing the independent e-marketplace in all industries--the telecom industry included. The...

NETWORK ELEMENTS SHIPS FIRST 10 GB/S MINIPHY OPTICAL NETWORKING MODULE MEETING ITU STANDARDS OVER FULL TEMPERATURE RANGE.(Product Announcement)
July 16, 2001... Network Elements, Inc., the provider of high-speed Optical Networking Modules (ONMTM), today announced the 10 Gigabit (Gb/s) MiniPHY 200-pin ONM for use in DWDM, SONET, 10 Gb/s Ethernet (GbE) LAN and WAN, and optical switching applications. ...

SST EXPANDS EMBEDDED MASS STORAGE PORTFOLIO WITH NEW ATA-DISK MODULE FAMILY.(Product Announcement)
July 16, 2001... SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.)(Nasdaq:SSTI), has introduced its ATA-Disk Module (ADM) Family. Designed to complement the company's successful ATA-Disk Chip (ADC) products, the new ADM products are ATA/IDE protocol-compatible solid-state...

OPTIMIGHT PRODUCT PLATFORM OFFERS FLEXIBLE UPGRADE TO 40 GB/S.(Product Announcement)
July 16, 2001... OptiMight has created a platform of products designed to provide the most flexible migration path from a robust, low cost 10Gb/s solution to a high-capacity 40Gb/s solution without interrupting service. The OptiMight platform allows carriers to...

HITACHI FIRST TO DEMONSTRATE INTEROPERABILITY WITH MULTIPLE OPTICAL SWITCHES.(Product Announcement)
July 16, 2001... Hitachi Telecom (USA) Inc. has begun demonstrating two unique optical switching systems in conjunction with its dense wavelength division multiplexer (DWDM) system, the Advanced Multiservice Network (AMN) 6100. Hitachi Telecom is showing the...

ALOPA UNVEILS METASERV QUICKSTART PLATFORM FOR FIXED WIRELESS SERVICE PROVIDERS.(Product Announcement)
July 16, 2001... Alopa Networks, Inc., has unveiled its Alopa MetaServ QuickStart Platform for fixed wireless MultiChannel, Multipoint Distribution Systems (MMDS) and Local Multi-Point Distribution Service (LMDS) operators. Alopa's MetaServ QuickStart is an...

GARTNER DATAQUEST SAYS DOT-COM FAILURES DAMPEN OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AMERICAN STORAGE SERVICE PROVIDER INDUSTRY.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 16, 2001... The North American storage service provider (SSP) market will grow from $176 million in 2000 to over $6 billion in 2004, according to Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT and ITB). The SSP industry was bracing for even stronger...

KYMATA'S 8-INCH WAFER SOLUTION OFFERS OPPORTUNITY FOR INCREASED LEVELS OF INTEGRATION AND COST REDUCTION.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 16, 2001... Kymata Limited recently announced an 8-inch wafer solution for the production of Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG). With the ability to mass-produce commercial planar lightwave circuits (PLC) from 8-inch wafers, this breakthrough technology...

FUJITSU INTRODUCES STACKED MCPS WITH NAND FLASH MEMORY AND FCRAM.(Product Announcement)
July 16, 2001... Fujitsu Microelectronics has introduced stacked multi-chip packages (MCPs) that incorporate high-density NAND Flash memory and Fast Cycle RAM (FCRAM), developed to provide the speed, density and cost-efficiency required for data storage in the...

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR TO DEPLOY AUTONOMY INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY FOR DISABILITYDIRECT.GOV.(Product Information)
July 16, 2001... Autonomy Corporation plc (Nasdaq: AUTN; Nasdaq Europe: AUTN; LSE: AU.), a leading provider of infrastructure software for the Web and the enterprise, today announced that The Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults with...

U.S. GOVERNMENT'S NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION SELECTS NETSEC TO MEET FEDERAL SECURITY REQUIREMENTS.(Government Activity)
July 16, 2001... NETSEC, a global provider of managed information security services, has been awarded a multi-year contract to provide its services to the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. government agency responsible for promoting research and...

MILLER ON PROCUREMENT.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
July 16, 2001... **PROTESTS** I have recently received several calls wanting help with protests. It is astounding how little CEOs understand about this process and they never, ever learn the process in advance. They always wait until the 11th hour and want...

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE HARVESTS ACCESSIBLE WEB CONTENT FOR USERS WITH DISABILITIES USING CRUNCHY TECHNOLOGIES' PAGESCREAMER.(Product Information)
July 16, 2001... Crunchy Technologies, a provider of accessible software products and custom applications, today announced the large-scale adoption of their PageScreamer accessibility products by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA, one of several high...

Data Link Solutions.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 16, 2001... Data Link Solutions, a Limited Liability Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is being awarded a $33,047,675 firm-fixed-price option exercise for the U.S. Air Force Multifunctional Information Distribution System - Fighter Data Like (MIDS-FDL) Program....

Concurrent Technologies Corp.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 16, 2001... Concurrent Technologies Corp. (CTC), Alexandria, Va., is being awarded an $8,559,820 modification to previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00014-00-C-0471) for research work on the development of cost-effective software technology...

Hewlett-Packard Co.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
July 16, 2001... Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif., entered into a $25,698,000 technology investment agreement with DARPA on June 15, 2001. The government is funding $12,542,000 of the agreement, with $2,690,450 being awarded at this time. The consortium...

Raytheon Electronic Systems.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
July 16, 2001... Raytheon Electronic Systems, El Segundo, Calif., is being awarded a $5,809,196 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to perform a demonstration of a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) System in a dedicated pod on an F-14 aircraft. Work will be performed in...

Lockheed Martin Corp.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 16, 2001... Lockheed Martin Corp., Missiles and Fire Control-Dallas, Grand Prairie, Texas, is being awarded a $5,733,000 increment as part of a $6,300,000 modification to cost-plus-award-fee contract DAAH01-00-C-0002. The Multiple Launch Rocket System...

Spiral Technology, Inc.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
July 16, 2001... Spiral Technology, Inc., Lancaster, Calif. is being awarded a $7,855,939 cost-plus-fixed- fee contract to provide for advanced research and engineering advisory and assistance services in support of the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air...

BAE Systems Applied Technologies.(Navy contract)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
July 16, 2001... BAE Systems Applied Technologies, Rockville, Md., is being awarded $19,089,614 cost-plus-fixed-fee, term, services contract to provide technical and engineering services to support the design, development, installation, integration, test and...

Mantech Systems Engineering Corp.(Navy contract)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
July 16, 2001... Mantech Systems Engineering Corp., Fairfax, Va., is being awarded a $9,476,255 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee, term, services contract (N00421-97-C-1430) to exercise an option to provide technical and engineering...

Computer Sciences Corp.(Army contract)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
July 16, 2001... Computer Sciences Corp., Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded $50,000 as part of an estimated $70,100,000 time and materials/labor hour, firm-fixed-price, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract. The Defense Acquisition and Logistics...

General Dynamics Government Systems Corp.(Army contract)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
July 16, 2001... General Dynamics Government Systems Corp., Taunton, Mass., is being awarded a $5,818,499 modification to firm-fixed-price contract DAAB07-94-C-N853, to exercise options for common hardware/software items for the Project Manager Army Tactical...

Veridian Erim International.(navy contract)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
July 16, 2001... Veridian Erim International, Ann Arbor, Mich., is being awarded a $9,918,309 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for data collection system radar modifications and associated data collection, processing and analysis activities in support of at-sea...

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SELECTS UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX TO PARTICIPATE IN DISTANCE EDUCATION DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.(Government Activity)
July 16, 2001... Apollo Group Inc. (Nasdaq: APOL) (Nasdaq: UOPX) recently announced that its subsidiary, the University of Phoenix, has been selected to participate in the Department of Education's Distance Education Demonstration Program. Selection to...

INSILICON'S JPEG2000 ENCODER ACCELERATES AND OPTIMIZES NEXT GENERATION IMAGE COMPRESSION.(Product Announcement)
July 23, 2001... inSilicon Corporation (Nasdaq:INSN) -- a provider of communications technology for complex systems-on-chip -- has announced the release of their newest image compression semiconductor intellectual property, the JPEG2000 Encoder. JPEG2000...

GLOBAL NAPSTER USAGE PLUMMETS, BUT NEW FILE-SHARING ALTERNATIVES GAINING GROUND, REPORTS JUPITER MEDIA METRIX.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 23, 2001... Jupiter Media Metrix (Nasdaq: JMXI), a leader in Internet and new technology analysis and measurement, reports that total time spent using the Napster file-sharing application plummeted 65 percent among home users in 14 leading wired countries,...

BALTIMORE TECHNOLOGIES CHOSEN TO PROVIDE SECURITY AND INTEGRITY TO THE AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 23, 2001... Baltimore Technologies (Nasdaq: BALT) (LONDON: BLM) has announced that it is a key member of the consortium selected to upgrade the Australian Defence communications network through the multimillion dollar e-Defence project. Baltimore...

OPTICAL SWITCH DEMONSTRATES INDUSTRY'S FIRST TRANSPARENT COMPACTPCI MODULE AT NFOEC 2001.(Optical Switch's Kaleidoscope)(Company Business and Marketing)
July 23, 2001... Optical Switch, a provider of transparent optical switching products and microphotonics products and services, has announced the expansion of its Kaleidoscope(TM) product line with the industry's first transparent, CompactPCI(R) module -- the...

GFINET, INC. CHOOSES METROMEDIA FIBER NETWORK FOR OUTSOURCED INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGED SERVICES.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 23, 2001... GFInet, Inc., the hybrid voice and online brokerage service, has selected Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN) (Nasdaq: MFNX) Internet Solutions for outsourced Internet infrastructure managed services. The company has entered into a multi-year...

HYPERCOM AND IDLOGIX INTRO TOUCH SCREEN AGE VERIFICATION CAPABILITY AT THE POINT-OF-SALE.(ePOS-infocommerce ICE devices)(Product Announcement)
July 23, 2001... Hypercom Corporation (NYSE:HYC), a provider of electronic payment systems, and IDLogix, a leader in identification authentication software, today introduced an age verification application for use on Hypercom's touch-screen based ICE card...

CMS SHIPS POCKET-SIZED DATA STORAGE AND RECOVERY SOLUTION FOR NOTEBOOKS.(CMS Peripherals' ABSplus)(Product Announcement)
July 23, 2001... CMS Peripherals(R) has begun shipping in quantity the ABSplus. In addition to the sleek design of the new exterior, the ABSplus is the market's first pocket-sized PCMCIA Automatic Backup System (ABS) for notebook computers to include...

ECVISION LAUNCHES XpressCommerce iDX Manager.(Product Announcement)
July 23, 2001... ecVision(TM), a leading provider of collaboration software for automating the international supply chain via the Internet, has released XpressCommerce iDX Manager a secure, scalable, affordable, XML-based document exchange platform....

ITAA WARNS PUBLIC OF SWEEPING 'CODE RED' INTERNET WORM.(Information Technology Association of America)(Industry Trend or Event)
July 23, 2001... The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) today warned organizations with Internet-connected computer systems to take immediate action in response to the Code Red Internet Worm. The worm appears to be spreading rapidly at...

TWOBYFOUR SOFTWARE RELEASES NEW PRODUCTS FOR THE VMS MARKET.(VMS Surveillance kit, RTR Probe)(Product Announcement)
July 23, 2001... Twobyfour Software, a developer of Application Management software for business critical applications, has announced that two new products for the VMS market have been released. The VMS Surveillance kit is the first EMS (Enterprise...

ORACLE IMPLEMENTS COMPLETE E-BUSINESS SUITE FOR AMERICAN TOWER.(Company Operations)
July 23, 2001... Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), the largest provider of software for e-business, has announced that American Tower Corporation (ATC), a leading owner and operator of wireless infrastructure, is deploying the Oracle(R) E-Business Suite to simplify,...

LIGHTCUBE RELEASES 3D SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT.(Product Announcement)
July 23, 2001... LIGHTCUBE GmbH has announced the availability of gxSDK, a powerful software package for the development of realtime-3D applications. gxSDK is targeted at software developers and content designers who wish to build immersive 3D applications...

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES TO PROVIDE 3G WIRELESS SYSTEMS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TO METROPCS.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 30, 2001... $161 Million Contract Prepares MetroPCS Service Launch in 14 Metro Areas MetroPCS and Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) have announced a three-year, $161 million contract for Lucent to provide third-generation (3G) wireless systems and...

HP TO ACQUIRE STORAGEAPPS.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 30, 2001... Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HWP) and StorageApps recently announced the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which HP will acquire StorageApps, a leading provider of storage virtualization solutions, in a stock-for-stock...

SANYO ADOPTS INSILICON JVX ACCELERATION TECHNOLOGY FOR JAVA APPS.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 30, 2001... inSilicon Corporation (Nasdaq:INSN), a provider of communications semiconductor intellectual property (IP), has announced that Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. has completed a license for the company's JVX acceleration technology for use in Java-based...

MOTOROLA BREATHES FIRE INTO PORTABLE HANDHELD MARKET.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 30, 2001... In a move to advance one of the company's global growth opportunities, Motorola, Inc.'s (NYSE: MOT) Semiconductor Products Sector, the embedded mobile computing provider with cellular and personal digital assistant (PDA) systems expertise, has...

CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR LICENSES ARC INT'L TECHNOLOGY IN PARTNERSHIP DEAL.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 30, 2001... Cypress Semiconductor (NYSE: CY) has licensed its ARCtangent-A4 processor in a corporate multiple-license agreement to be implemented over the next five years. Cypress plans to use the ARCtangent processor in a number of new product...

PMC-SIERRA INTRODUCES THE INDUSTRY'S HIGHEST DENSITY SINGLE CHANNEL OC-3 ATM/POS-PHY.(Product Announcement)
July 30, 2001... PMC-Sierra (NASDAQ: PMCS) recently announced the latest addition to the ATM/POS-PHY product line; the PM5384 S/UNI-1x155, a single channel OC-3c SONET/SDH-PHY for ATM/POS with industry standard UTOPIA Level 2 and POS-PHY Level 2 system...

EPOX SELECTS SIGMA'S EM8400 MPEG DECODER CHIPS.(Product Information)
July 30, 2001... EPoX Computer Co., Ltd. (EPoX) has selected Sigma's EM8400 MPEG Decoder chip for use in thei6r new EP-1800 Set-Top Box (STB) solution. To support production shipments for their EP-1800 STB, EPoX has placed a volume order for EM8400 chips. ...

CALIPER AND NASA ESTABLISH ADP COLLABORATION TO CREATE MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALS IN SPACE USING LABCHIP TECHNOLOGY.(Government Activity)
July 30, 2001... Caliper Technologies Corp. (Nasdaq: CALP) recently announced that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Caliper have established an Applications Developer Program (ADP) collaboration through a subcontract with Sverdrup...

MILLER ON PROCUREMENT.(Government Activity)(Column)
July 30, 2001... **THE PROBLEM NEVER ENDS** The problem to which I refer is the ignorance and sloppiness and sometimes evil intent, which result in vendors not getting copies of bids. Many court cases abound. We have seen cases where the vendor requests...

TRW PUTS FIRST INDIUM PHOSPHIDE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT IN ORBIT.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 30, 2001... An indium phosphide chip designed and produced by TRW (NYSE:TRW) is the first InP integrated circuit to be flown in space. Fabricated from TRW's patented InP transistor technology, the low-noise amplifier (LNA) chip is part of a broadband...

Litton Guidance & Control Systems Division.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 30, 2001... Litton Guidance & Control Systems Division, Woodland Hills, Calif., is being awarded an $8,702,430 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for development of a Remote Powered All Optical Fixed Distributed System-Commercial. Litton will provide an...

Lockheed Martin Mission Systems.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
July 30, 2001... Lockheed Martin Mission Systems, Springfield, Va., is being awarded $3,421,620 of a $28,268,811 modification to a potential $186,659,239 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-award-fee contract for software development and...

Science Applications International Corp.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
July 30, 2001... Science Applications International Corp., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded an $8,871,061 modification to indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost- plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-award-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee, firm-fixed-price contract...

Litton Systems Inc.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
July 30, 2001... Litton Systems Inc., Guidance and Control Systems Division, Woodland Hills, Calif., is being awarded a $15,762,982 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of CN-1649/ASN-139 Inertial Navigation Units and MT-6436/ASN-139 Inertial Mounts...

Sytronics Inc.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
July 30, 2001... Sytronics Inc., Dayton, Ohio (F33657-01-D-2076), and Karta Technologies Inc., San Antonio, Texas (F33657-01-D-2078), are being awarded a $3,000,000,000 (program maximum) multiple award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity type contract with...

Raytheon Co. - C31 Systems.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
July 30, 2001... Raytheon Co. - C31 Systems, Fort Wayne, Ind., is being awarded a five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract with an estimated cumulative total of $49,000,000 for AN/PSC-5 Satellite Communications Demand...

The Boeing Co.(Government Activity)
July 30, 2001... The Boeing Co., Midwest City, Okla. (F09603-01-D-0213); Lockheed Martin Inc., Bethesda, Md. (F09603-01-D-0207); Modern Technologies Corp., Dayton, Ohio (F09603-01-D-0209); Science Applications International Corp., San Diego, Calif....

Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
July 30, 2001... Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc., Falls Church, Va.; Sytex Inc.*, Doylestown, Pa.; Arrowhead Space & Telecommunications Inc.*, Falls Church, Va.; and Communication Technologies Inc.*, Chantilly, Va., are being awarded contracts for scientific,...